ON THE OCCASION OF 62 DEATH ANNIVERSARY OF
M.N.ROY (21ST March 1887-25th January 1954):
From his writings :
NEED FOR INDIAN RENAISSANCE :
Our present misfortune is due to the fact that India did not have her renaissance movement. Having had gone ahead of the European people in the earlier stages of intellectual development, she should have gone through the philosophical revolution known as the ‘Renaissance’, if insurmountable obstacles were not inherent in her ancient heritage. Suffice it to say at this moment that, upon the downfall of Buddhism, Indian intellectual life made no room for rationalism, and thus precluded the possibility of the eventual development of scientific thought.
GENUINE SECULARISM :
An alternative development in the democratic and therefore genuinely secular direction will be possible only when the placid background of ignorance, superstition and blind faith will be ploughed up by the spread of knowledge, skepticism and a critical attitude. These are the characteristic features of genuine secularism.
Indian Renaissance Institute
M.N.ROY (21ST March 1887-25th January 1954):
From his writings :
NEED FOR INDIAN RENAISSANCE :
Our present misfortune is due to the fact that India did not have her renaissance movement. Having had gone ahead of the European people in the earlier stages of intellectual development, she should have gone through the philosophical revolution known as the ‘Renaissance’, if insurmountable obstacles were not inherent in her ancient heritage. Suffice it to say at this moment that, upon the downfall of Buddhism, Indian intellectual life made no room for rationalism, and thus precluded the possibility of the eventual development of scientific thought.
GENUINE SECULARISM :
An alternative development in the democratic and therefore genuinely secular direction will be possible only when the placid background of ignorance, superstition and blind faith will be ploughed up by the spread of knowledge, skepticism and a critical attitude. These are the characteristic features of genuine secularism.
Indian Renaissance Institute
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